GRAMMY-winning country artist Randy Travis was the featured guest for
a recent installment of the GRAMMY Museum's An Evening With series.
Taking place inside the intimate Clive Davis Theater, Travis discussed
his most recent album, Anniversary Celebration, and working
with fellow GRAMMY winner Alan Jackson and Jamey Johnson. Travis also
performed a brief set including hits such as "Forever And Ever, Amen";
"Three Wooden Crosses"; and "On The Other Hand."

"We started a
song and the next morning we finished it," said Travis regarding the
recording of his 1990 hit "A Few Ole Country Boys" with Johnson. "He's a
great writer [and] a great craftsman. He knows when songs are going in
the right direction. … He did something there that's really tough to do.
You can't always take a song that you've … been listening to for years
and make it yours. But he sure did."

Born Randy Bruce Traywick in Marshville, N.C., Travis landed a
recording contract in 1978 with Paula Records and the following year
released two singles, including "She's My Woman." Travis moved to
Nashville and independently released his debut album, Randy Ray Live,
under the name Randy Ray. Three years later Travis signed a deal with
Warner Bros. Records and changed his performing name to Randy Travis.
His first pair of singles with the label, "On The Other Hand" and
"1982," shot to the Top 10 on Billboard's Country Singles chart, with the former reaching No. 1.

Travis' full length debut, Storms Of Life,
was released in 1986 and sold more than 3 million copies. The album
reached No. 1 on the Country Albums chart and spawned two additional Top
5 singles, "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home," the former of
which earned Travis his first GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Vocal
Solo Performance, Male. Always & Forever was released in
1987, topping the Country Albums chart and reaching No. 19 on the
Billboard 200. The album earned a GRAMMY for Best Country Vocal
Performance, Male; spawned three No. 1 Country Singles in "Forever And
Ever, Amen," "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always And Forever)" and "Too
Gone Too Long"; and marked the beginning of a streak of eight
consecutive No. 1 singles for Travis.

Released in 1988, Old 8x10
topped the Country Albums chart, earned Travis a second consecutive
GRAMMY for Best Country Solo Vocal Performance, Male, and produced the
No. 1 Country Single "Is It Still Over." In 1989 Travis released No Holdin' Back,
marking his fifth consecutive No. 1 album on the country charts. The
album spawned three Top 5 Country Singles: "It's Just A Matter Of Time,"
"Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart" and "He Walked On Water."

Travis went on to have continued success on the Country Albums chart, releasing several additional Top 10 albums, including Heroes And Friends (1990), which featured the original recording of "A Few Ole Country Boys" with George Jones, High Lonesome (1991), This Is Me (1994), You And You Alone (1998), Rise And Shine (2002), Worship & Faith (2004), and Around The Bend (2008). Travis' most recent release, 2011's Anniversary Celebration,
marked the 25th anniversary of his career with duets with artists
including Zac Brown, Don Henley, Jackson, Johnson, James Taylor, and
Carrie Underwood, the latter with whom he earned his seventh GRAMMY in
2009 for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "I Told You So."
Upcoming GRAMMY Museum events include An Evening With Jackie DeShannon (Jan. 30) and The Drop: Ruthie Foster (Jan. 31).